The British comics celebrating an important anniversary in March 2024.
Tag: Batman
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – November 2023
Let's turn that frowny "November" into the more positive "Yesvember!" by taking a look at the British comics that are celebrating an important anniversary in the coming month!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2023
"Ne'er Cast A Clout 'til March is Out" as the old saying doesn't go. I don't know what it means, but it's probably something to do with comics, I expect. (That's my default position when I'm unsure about something: one day, I'll be right.)
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – February 2023
Crikey, a lot of important and influential British comics are celebrating the anniversaries of their births this month!
Rusty Staples: Year Three
April 15th is the Feast of St. Aples, the patron saint of writing about comics, which is why I chose this date -- exactly three years ago -- to launch my comics blog, which was of course named after St. Aples himself. Happy Birthday to us! Hooray!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – Nov 2020
Here we are again with a super-streamlined version of Hatch, Match and Dispatch, readers! Just pure data, almost no filler! (See also Oct 2019, Nov 2019, Dec 2019, Jan 2020, Feb 2020, Mar 2020, Apr 2020, May 2020, Jun 2020, Jul 2020, Aug 2020, Sep 2020 and Oct 2020.) Update 20201027: The great Rob Kirby … Continue reading Hatch, Match & Dispatch – Nov 2020
Rusty’s Reviews Round-Up
To save you literally whiles of searching through this blog, here are all of Rusty's reviews in one place!
Altered Images: Albert Fitzwilliam Digby
Pocket-Money Comics: Batman Monthly
You'd think that for a relatively recent comic (say, from the late 1980s) it would be easy enough to track down all the info. But not so! The publication life of London Editions' Batman Monthly is annoyingly vague. The majority of the evidence suggests that it ran for fifty-six monthly issues, then it was relaunched … Continue reading Pocket-Money Comics: Batman Monthly
Pocket-Money Comics: Look-In
Look-In Publisher: ITP / IPC First issue: 9 Jan 1971 Last issue: 12 March 1994 Issues: 1210 In print for EXACTLY two decades, two years, two months and two days -- and another day, and another year -- Look-In was a hybrid of magazine and comic, quite unusual for its time, though not entirely unique. … Continue reading Pocket-Money Comics: Look-In